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"Ocean science connects a global community of scientists in many disciplines - physics, chemistry, biology, geology and geophysics. New observational and computational technologies are transforming the ability of scientists to study the global ocean with a more integrated and dynamic approach. This enhanced understanding of the ocean is becoming ever more important in an economically and geopolitically connected world, and contributes vital information to policy and decision makers charged with addressing societal interests in the ocean. Science provides the knowledge necessary to realize the benefits and manage the risks of the ocean. Comprehensive understanding of the global ocean is fundamental to forecasting and managing risks from severe storms, adapting to the impacts of climate change, and managing ocean resources. In the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is the primary funder of the basic research which underlies advances in our understanding of the ocean. Sea Change addresses the strategic investments necessary at NSF to ensure a robust ocean scientific enterprise over the next decade. This survey provides guidance from the ocean sciences community on research and facilities priorities for the coming decade and makes recommendations for funding priorities." --

The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports both basic research and education in the nonmedical sciences and engineering. Congress established the foundation as an independent federal agency in 1950 and directed it to ""promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purposes."" The NSF is a primary source of federal support for U.S. university research, especially in certain fields such as mathematics and computer science. It is also responsible for significant shares of the federal science, technology

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Includes bibliography. ; [1] California, by H. R. Marshall, with the assistance of A. Brinton [and others]--[2] Connecticut, by E. P. Lehmann.--[3] New Mexico, by A. R. Richards and G. Radosevich.--[4] New York, by G. Birkhead and C. D. Ahlberg. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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1968 survey has title : R & D activities in State government agencies, fiscal years 1964 and 1965 ; Mode of access: Internet.

v. 1. General information and plenary sessions.--v. 2. Using natural resources.--v. 3. Improving productivity.--v. 4. Coping with man-made and natural hazards.--v. 5. Improving government responsiveness to public needs.--v. 6. Regulation. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"September 1993." ; Shipping list no.: 94-0063-P. ; "Creating a government that works better & costs less"--Cover. ; Cover title: From red tape to results. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The social sciences have often found themselves under attack. In American political culture and in the national science policy arena their most persistent and strongest critics have come from conservative quarters and the Republican Party. Conservative doubts about the intellectual value and practical relevance of political science, sociology, and related disciplines have also informed repeated efforts to slash social science funding at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). During President Donald Trump's first year in the White House, the new Republican administration's budget proposal to Congress included a 10.4 percent decrease in funding for NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBES Directorate). Such attacks on public funding for the social sciences have special importance because the NSF has a broad mandate to look after the health of American science and is widely regarded as one of the country's premier federal science agencies. In order to understand the importance of debates over public funding and to appreciate their broader significance for the social sciences, for American science policy, and for the NSF itself, we require a deeper historical perspective. In this case, there is no better place to start than the beginning, with the agency's legislative origins and formative years. Efforts to place the social sciences in the NSF were an uphill battle from the outset, when legislative proposals for a new natural-science-oriented agency were first put forth and debated in the early post-WWII era. At that time, the question of whether the social sciences deserved to be included in the proposed agency provoked heated debate in the nation's political, scientific, and academic communities. When the dust had settled a few years later, the agency's 1950 charter explicitly mentioned the physical and biological sciences. But it did not mention the social sciences. Passages stating that the agency could support "other sciences" left this possibility open, however. And in subsequent years, the young NSF did decide to provide very modest funding for a carefully circumscribed type of social science, which agency documents defined as the "hard-core" end of the social research continuum. With the passage of time, the agency also became a patron of singular importance for American social science. It provided extensive resources to advance scientific inquiry carried out by the nation's sociologists, political scientists, anthropo ...

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